'wla 4F~uill 6nrndi Puarasatu MoruaY as THunsraUD Evs~nios. TIIURSLA'i JANUARY 8, ll14 GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The Wheat Market. In the local market to-day wheaf was quoted at Sa. 144. per bushel. Presbyterlan Church, Tooleybuc. :Ptesblyerian O'iurch service will ba conducted in tie Tuoleybue Punic HlUl on .Sundary next, at 11 a.m., by the Rev. Mr. Hughes, of, Balrauald.-Adv. The Weather. Hot, tying weather was ex; .r enced in the d.stcict this 'week. T. e shai.e records wele-bu.day, 94 Log;; Mlon any, 94.1; TuedAty, 97.1; W&amp;lt;.diieddy, 100.2. As darkne.is closed in last night the wind went round to tse we~st, and blew with hu;r.c-sie lftce The dust was di iven along in c.ouus, and conditions were veky u.comro~t able. We have not heard of any damage being done, but t.e force of the wind cauled tue elects.c w.r-s to touch, wikh the zesult that snme of ~the lights went out. Nothrmng, however, happened at the, power house. Population of Swan Hill. A resident who has mads a care fu...

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IN FANNY BURNEY'S GARDEN. An amusing account of the horti cultural pursuits-and ineptitude-of General d'Arblay, the French emigre who became Fhnny Burney's hus band, is given in an article in the "Cornhill" by Sir Henry Lucy: The young couple began their mar ried life in apartments in a farm house on the summit of Bagden Hill. Thence they moved to a somewhat larger cottage at Bookham. Finally, when "Camilla" proved a financial success, they built themselves a house on the outskirts of Norbury Park, known during their residence as "Camilla Cottage." From the first, H1. dArbliy, con scious of inadequacy to bear his fair share in the wherewithal for meeting the cost of the little household, de veloped a fearsome frenzy for gar dening. Pursuit of the vocation in volved him in delightfully ludicrous dilemmas. Writing under date April, 17t14, from the cottage at Bookham, the young wife says: "Think of our horticultural shock last week when Mrs. Bailey, our land lady, entreated him not to ...

Indamed Udder. Mammitis, or inflammat on of the udddr, is a disease ge.ierally due 1o exposure to cold, and is Ireqieatiy caumed by the animal lying on wet grass; but it may also oe causid ty carelejs milking. Its existence is iu* dicaied Vy one or two quarae.s or tue auder increasing in ah.e and e.1t.~ming hard, and unlies renei is given an absess *wil iurm wiuiin the vessei. The organ is very 6e,.asdive to pre. sure, and the muih is watery and diuged with olood, having a ie.deacy Lo curdie rapid.y. bai.re w.th waL in water aiter eacie milk.ng, and ale. wards rub-the bait \\eu wi.h not larc. iiould the part necume hard appay pouldies, ann an olntmnent msde Iinn .ix parus of iodine added to s.meen paris of lard.

DArYI WHY WASH THE UDDER? There are many points in clean dairying which, if observed closely, would obviate milk contamination, and cohsequent complaints about in ferior cream and butter. Here are some points of advice: Washing the cow's udder is fre ouently necessary.. Should the pad dock in which the cows have been accustomed to lie down during the night be not clean-very few are clean enough-then the udders should be washed before milking. Cows for aging in unclean places, especially during drought, render washing their udders imperative. The cow-yard is usually muddy in some degree during.wet weather. As the cow walks to and from the bail she generally makes a beaten patih, and when wet this track becomes a continuous manure track. The cow kicks up on to the udder pieces of this contaminated soil, and the udder is tl;us unclean when milking time begins. The milker's hands are often a fruitful source of milk contamination during the operation of milking. The damp, dirty hand of a...

The Two Financiers. One day two London financiers who were partners, discovered that an office boy in their employ had been tampering with the petty cash. One of them was so much enraged that he desired to send for the police forthwith, but the other was a calm and just man. He took a more moder* ate and human view of the eituation. "Nay, nay, partner," he said, let us always remember that we began in a small way ourselves,"

FARM AND DAIRY. Provislon for Cows. "Hickory," int the "'Weekly Thine ,' writes a;i follows: Ofieohas it bceneieitionedjhergtd3 Sooij"irovisit tlt dairy, fai~rmer s eas .i rule make ofo fecding their cows thluough pciriods of ;ecarcityv.- -t ist therefore, interesting t a stvny'ds parture frou the common carelessness; ard, with, the hope thai othdri may bloi b the cxpeinenice ofra vTesteirw dis i i tlandov ner is here givcn. lIe writes:-"I got the department t? build ne a 7O-ton iood and 1iron silo, and filled it without a hitch; and also an excavation of ibonut 1O cubio yards, h ich I had mide in the side of the steep hill at the diur. The mixed 6rop .ias a gr eat s~ucs.l : worked up 28 acres of clay- ground with a spring-toothl cultivator, and then drilled in 1 bushels Cape barleyz e bushel rye, 121b. golden vethebs; &amp;id about SOlb. of super. and bunedust in equal quantities. The riesilt was a tremend ou, biulk of stuff, which would have filled both silo and eveavation fiv...

EXPERIENCE IMPERATIVE. It requires the same treatment of good jrulg1nent and perseverance to suctceed in the poultry business as it does .n other lines of business. There are not any more adverse conditions to encounter than there are in other lines. But about the first time a poultry-raiser encounters a really dis couraging thing, his enthusiasm suf fers such a shock as to make recovery doubtful. There is not another busi ness that can be mentioned the pro duct of which is in greater demand. Then, why should large numbers of people who enter it continue to fall? The greatest reason is becauie a great majority of those who take up poultry-raising do so without any pre vious knowledge of the business. The next great. reason is because of the continued problems which come up (ally to be solved, and which, if not solvfl with good judgment, lead to positive disappointment and loss. Thirdly, because profits do not roll In at fast as they had been led fo be. Ifevo they would by the extrav...

DAI.RYING SUGGESTIONS. :'The! following ,su~ggstions~ are,'th experience of Mr.:-W. M. Rider, of the Winona Agricuitiral 'College, U.S.A.: ;Test your ierd fort economic prodic tion. "**." SWeigh m1lk from'2 each' cow night, and morninig, one day each month. 'iTake samples of each milking and' test it for ibutter fat. Knowiug the milk and fat given in one da3; use these figuhes as an aver age day's production for the ctirrent month, and, -by multiplying the milk and fat produced iby the number of days in the month, you obtain the total amonunt of milk and butter fat (in pounds) produced for one month. We gh feed fed on day of-test, 'and from thie cost of each. feed figure-the cost of feed fed each cow on day of test From the daily coat of feed per cow, cpmpute the costof her feed for one monith.· : , If the milk is sold as miilk; compute the value of each cow's milk for the nmonth at the market price received. Knowing the money valiie of each cow's milk for the month, and the'cost of...

PRO wH1NQ AaC-inuTI IN THR MURRAy RIVI the Miurray~ uer fling acids 0cc th tr Supply eta Stlate oc eveningy, the vltu .P lgP ut05 r Nirman, aged 14 years, thue o Norman, a recent arrival fr$ ciuntry. It is reported that the n· of the deceased and coimnst enbe family had tea on the bank uf the after which decoieud Went in fir [ He was not an expert swi or aw aftir he had reached ts alrnn tue r *.f the streairm he was 5een by eii the hank tui sink, and that WsR seen of him. The hile iii which h1 is said t41 he about 30fth deep, and of snage. The police verewa~mi with, and staps were at once taken arid recover the lad. The police, by a number of willing helpers, d for the buidy till a late hbur on 4 night, and again resumed their br l'uuesday. Erplo-ivcs were ak, with a view tu releasing the body, it he caught in a snag or held c lelgi, but without avail. Thr p, aru s continued ufn W\'edhnesdapy, a :afternoon the body was dier Cap: aiui Harry Bl'Donluld, of Nth float ing down tire rive...

By LEWIN FITZHAMON. By Arrangement with Ward, Lock and Co., Dielbourne.) (All Rights Reserved.) CHAPTER XLIV. Lady Pettigew stood in the witness box. All trace of tears had gone; one might almost say, all trace of woman. too. It was the little vixen, Polly Hemmings. who stood there, with jouged cheeks and blackened lashes. That make-up hitd a significance; it was a chalif-Ige to the world. Lady l'ettigew had fallen from her high es tate. As ihbstone had stripped all thle airs and p:rlt-nces from off the Countess. T ainty sank lower and low er in-misery and rumiliation until she touched the l'ottom. Then came re action ThEro was no longer any need of pretence, of airs, of graces, so rolly -lemmings cast them grimly aside. al :assuinmed the fightii'g spirit' of old Joe llitninings in their place. Therefore, was she made up to hide the ravages of the night's strug gle, but she was ostentatiously made up as a challenge to all her fine friesids who crowded back to Court r.ed day. With am...

FAREWELL TO MR, A MRS. BLAIKIE, ENTHUSIASalC PUBLIr MEETING. A mat enthta astc p bic h - of paren:s of sc.ula,5 at entd Swan Hill StatC sc.Col, and of Mr. and Mrs. CG. Blaikk. held in the shire hall on H evening last. There was a' sentative attondanco of ladC gentlemen, and a real lire was taken in the proceT4 The chairman (Mr. F. F. briefly explaiLed tre obiect: meeting, and apologi-ei h: absence of Mr. S.her:eeson i: the convenors of the meeti: Mr. W. Smi h, both of the el men being unavoidably alai Mr. C;ras. Ml'Dnald was a1 secretary of the mole'enair was unanimously decded rh function take trhe form of i ingroom social evening on I to be tixed. L.e lad.ej presenet themselves into a commnitre. rower to add, to attenda details in connection with rh part of the gathering, and 1 Appleby, Chishilm, Dwyer, IK Olirady, in conjunction wA president and s.ecletary, we pointed as a general "onmmitsen It was decijed to hate sdrce lists prepared at once, and a wire to Mr. Blaikie, who a pre...

ARREST IN COAL BUNKER. VISITOR BEATEN AND. ROBBED When Frank Howard, a midd e aed man, arrived in Meioourne on- Saul.ay evening last from Swan- aI for a holiday, he did not anticipate that' he was to be the .inderee: cause cf an ex citing p3lice chase and in arrest- in novel circumstances. How.rJ wo-t to Richmond House for accoinmodat on, but, as he was unsuccessiul there, he went oil to lok forl a bed. In tde evening he was ,walring alonig the Yarra bank, when two men sudBddedy confronted him. He said they had a stici, w.th witch they beat km ablut ihe head. He fell insensa.le, and w.io he lay on the ground the mea riiled his pockets, taking x.7 10s. T..e visitor cam; to hi sin e. s:m lime laktr, and, w.Lh a much-dijfigured face and head, he complaneJ to the lloudke-saree west p nice. iJe fu.nistle. a description os hi. two as.ai.ants, a.d: this was read to -the polhce going on duty at 5 o'clock on sunday morning. Lobstaule Young was amongst them, and at 7 o'cljc( he was standcng' ...

Comstock's Nerve "~d Bone Linimer ra powerful penetrating preparatio! vhich acts through the pores' of t. kin on the nerves, bone, and musch :t possesses the marvellous properti 4 an immediate pain-killer, and is u, qualled as a remedy for the pains on *ches to a hidh human beings are su. ject, and which only an external r: medy can relieve. It overco:ies all pains axjd aches b relieving the effedt on the delicat. lerves, causing the circulation of th ilood to be fully maintained throug ~he injured part. It is an invaluad remedy for sprains and for reducia all sawellings, which under its infi nce hic·ome softeied and disappear. Rhcumatism, Sciatica, and Lumbac dl yield to the powerful, penetrati mnd conquering properties of this Lii .ment if used in connection -with Di Morse's Indian Root Pills accordin to directions. For StifE Joints, Neuralgia, Lamin Backi, Scalds, Bnrts, Contractes fuscxIesand Painful Swellings it wil be found htat-Oimstock's Nerve ani Bone Liniment has no equal....